Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Wera Meyer-Waldeck (born May 6, 1906 in Dresden , † April 25, 1964 in Bonn ) was a German architect .

Life

Wera Meyer-Waldeck grew up in Alexandria until she was eight . The family spent the First World War in Switzerland. After training as a kindergarten teacher , Meyer-Waldeck studied graphics with Georg Erler at the Dresden Academy of Applied Arts from 1924 to 1927 . In 1927 she went to the Bauhaus in Dessau and, in addition to studying architecture and painting, did an apprenticeship in the furniture workshop at the Bauhaus . In 1932 she put the first woman in Thuringia carpentry join test from.

Then she worked as a technical draftsman at the Junkers factories in Dessau, from 1937 in the planning office of the Reichsautobahnen in Berlin , from 1939 as an architect in the Reichsbahnbaudirektion Berlin . In 1942 she became head of the planning office of the Karwin -Thzynietz mining and steel works company, which was involved in the construction of coking plants, pumping stations, a power plant and apartments for the workers. From 1946 to 1948 she was a lecturer for interior design at the State University for Craft Art in Dresden.

In 1948 she settled as a freelance architect in Walldorf (Hesse) and designed furniture. As a new member of the Deutscher Werkbund , she designed its first post-war exhibition in Cologne in 1949, where she presented her own furniture designs and a model kindergarten. In 1949 she worked as a freelancer in the office of the architect Hans Schwippert , planning the interior design of the German Bundestag in Bonn. This was followed by the interior design of two ministries, the Federal Government's guest house ( “Viktorshöhe” ) and the Federal Chancellery . In addition, she realized the renovation of a hotel in Koblenz, the interior of a single home and various grammar schools, four arcade houses for refugees from the east and several single-family houses in Cologne as well as the Catholic mission abroad, the renovation of a carpet shop , a Ytong model house and, in 1962, a student residence in Bonn. In 1951 she took part in the “So Wohnen” exhibition in Bonn. In 1957, together with Hilde Weström , she developed several furnishing suggestions for the exhibition “Living in the City of Tomorrow” at Interbau Berlin. In 1958 she was responsible for the exhibition architecture of the “Personal Needs” department in the German Pavilion (architect: Egon Eiermann ) at the World Exhibition in Brussels. She was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the German Women's Association and wrote numerous specialist articles.

literature

• Wera Meyer-Waldeck . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 110-115.

Web links

• bauhaus100.de Wera Meyer-Waldeck